Example sentences of "stand for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The A stands for antecedents ( trigger events ) , the B for behaviour ( the problem ) , and C for consequences ( what the parents do ) . |
| 2 | At first sight this might not seem to be a serious problem ; one thing stands for others if it is used or taken as representing them . |
| 3 | This stands for Days ' Sales Outstanding . |
| 4 | ( that stands for Kids of Survival ) , an artist cooperative that has had an enormous success in recent years , opened its first show at Mary Boone last month . |
| 5 | Other requirements are more mundane , and include money in order to provide hymn and song books , instruments and music stands for churches in which such necessities are not taken for granted . |
| 6 | We used to stand for hours beside the railway line or leaning over a bridge waiting for the next one to come rushing past , and we would write down the numbers of the engines and also their names ( King George V , Dunraven Castle ) . |
| 7 | ‘ We bought it in Paris and I had to stand for hours while they fitted me . |
| 8 | Another common form of torture at the Compound involves forcing the detainee to stand for hours on one leg , the other being tied to a door handle . |
| 9 | In my ordinary use of words to stand for sensations my words are ‘ tied up with my natural expressions of sensation ’ . |
| 10 | With a little maintenance , these houses stand for decades . |
| 11 | The initials CTC stand for Cyclists ' Touring Club . |
| 12 | You stand for hours , without a girdle , because of block bookings and not enough chairs . |
| 13 | The symbols M and F stand for males and females . |
| 14 | Or symbolically , if we let $ be the set of sentences in language L , C the set of possible contexts , P the set of propositions , and U the cartesian product of S x C — i.e. the set of possible combinations of members of S with members of C , and we let the corresponding lower case letters stand for elements or members of each of those sets ( i.e. s e S , c e C , p e P , u e U ) : ( 16 ) f(u) =p ( or:f ( s , c ) = p ) i.e. f is a function that assigns to utterances the propositions that express their full meaning in context Gazdar ( 1979a : 4-5 ) , on the other hand , wishes to capture the ways in which utterances change the context in which they are uttered ; he shows that Katz 's formulation is incompatible with that goal , and therefore suggests instead : ( 17 ) f(u) c ( or:f ( s , c ) c ) i.e. f is a function from utterances to contexts , namely the contexts brought about by each utterance ( or : f assigns to each sentence plus the context prior to its utterance , a second context caused by its utterance ) The idea here is that the shift from the context prior to an utterance to the context post utterance itself constitutes the communicational content of the utterance . |
| 15 | The simple wordtags either stand for classes of grammatically similar words ( e.g. NN for singular common noun ) or for closed class words that have a special function ( e.g. TO indicating when the word to is infinitival ) . |
| 16 | In political elections , however , candidates are not just persons , they stand for parties , and in political terms a lower preference can count against a higher preference in some circumstances . |
| 17 | Geneva , Switzerland : Courtaulds Fibres Cellulosics is planning its biggest and best stand for years at the Index exhibition from April 20–23 , showing both viscose and Tencel . |
| 18 | In later chapters we shall prove several results of the above type where the symbols used will not necessarily stand for integers . |
| 19 | I 'd stand for hours in front of the mirror , painting my face and fingernails and backcombing and lacquering from a sticky , plastic squeeze bottle until my hair resembled a busby . |
| 20 | As a concise and precise international language like that longed for by the natural philosophers of the seventeenth century , where symbols would stand for things and not words , engineering drawing was valuable in opening machinery to scientific study . |
| 21 | For shear , using is a pure shear and a pure shear strain we find the a " and b " standing for functions of the averaged shearing stress and strain components . |
| 22 | The first two are phonetic symbols standing for syllables , whereas Kanji are non-phonetic symbols , or ideograms , representing complete ideas . |
| 23 | The second is that the components of language do not have meaning for us in virtue of standing for objects , of various ontological kinds , with which we become acquainted through some kind of ostensive definition . |
| 24 | The third is the application of the second to concepts like ‘ pain' : words like ‘ pain' do not have meaning for us in virtue of standing for objects with which we become acquainted through an internal ostensive definition . |
| 25 | The Rector was saying , and their cold faces were relaxed again , grateful , and they were standing for prayers . |
| 26 | For such people any contact with the Court would have been the ultimate in defilement — though it should be noted that some of the husbands showed less scruple in accepting governmental places , even to the extent of standing for elections and taking the oath of loyalty to the Emperor and the Constitution . |
| 27 | ‘ THERE is no way to know … ’ : how it resounds , that phrase , standing for centuries of silence , hints , half-knowledge about the hidden complexity and richness of women 's relations with themselves and each other . |
| 28 | Has there ever been a tennis player that has written in to say ‘ thank you ’ to their fans who have stood by them through all their traumas and their losses , who have stood for hours in the rain or slept out in the streets to get a look at their idols ? |
| 29 | Clara had visited this shop many times , and had stood for hours surreptitiously reading C. P. Snow , Tolkien , D. H. Lawrence and the poems of T. S. Eliot . |
| 30 | However , " culture " and art " were inherently undemocratic since they stood for processes of feeling , understanding , and evaluation that were considered to have become lost to majority cultures and literacies . |